Fighting Mosquitoes in 1920
Tuckerton Beacon 25 Mar 1920: MOSQUITO FIGHTERS PLAN CAMPAIGN FOR THIS SUMMER: The County Board of Mosquito Extermination had a full meeting Thursday at the Central House, Toms River. Work for the summer was planned and will be started at once, as soon as Superintendent Stephen JOHNSON can get men together to do it. It was decided to advertise for some tow to three hundred thousand feet of new ditching to be done this summer on the meadows below Tuckerton. In addition to this, which will be contract work, Supt. Johnson and his force will clean out the ditches already dug, and patrol the meadows during the danger periods. Drains will be put under the new county road in Long Beach, and under the road on the beach above Seaside Park. There is also some work to be done below Seaside Park.